PADUCAH — The Paducah office of the National Weather Service provided an updated statement at 12:50 p.m. Tuesday after a widespread data outage prevented forecasters from accessing information late Monday and early Tuesday.
The statement reads as follows:
The National Weather Service experienced a network outage that impacted multiple forecast offices across the country overnight. The outage occurred over 5 hours. During this outage, some warning services were impacted. The NWS IT team mitigated the issue by moving network services from our data center in College Park, Maryland to Boulder, Colorado and operations were back to normal as of 6:30 a.m. EDT today; watches and warnings are going out. We are working with the vendor to identify the root cause of the outage.
The outage caused delays in sharing information amid dangerous thunderstorms in the central U.S.